Lithium Power International Ltd (fka LTHHF)

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Used Car_Salesman Nicolás_Grau, today_we hear_you blathering_on
again (and again) about too much water being wasted during lithium mining operations https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/grau-admite-atraso-en-anuncio-de-politica-nacional-del-litio-pero-asegura-que-va-a-estar-durante-abril/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp see paragraph 4. Is lithium mining really the true culprit in this water-saving crusade you have recently mounted now that lithium is no longer selling for a paltry US$7,000/mt but rather an eye-popping/whopping US$52,000/mt?

If indeed you are so water-saving conscious now then why are you not attacking the agricultural growing industries in Chile with the same vigor you are attacking us lithium miners to save water by implementing additional unproven expensive massive-electricity-consuming DLE machinery completely outside the realm of our approved SEA permit which we worked on obtaining for 7 years?

It is the mega-farmer Agricultural industries that are misusing the water you want to retain for Chile. It is these rapacious farmers who more need your magical DLE-type water re-injection-into-the-ground machines.

See the newest yearly figures for industries' water consumption in Chile on page 77 of 104 in the Consejo Minero Annual Report for 2022
https://consejominero.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Book_mining_6thedition.pdf
Mining 4%
Electricity 5%
Industry 7%
Drinking Water 12%
Agriculture 72%

If in your lily-white altruistic heart you were really so honestly worried about excessive "water loss" then how is it you are not bitching today about all the water these mega-farmers are stealing by illegally diverting streams at the higher altitudes in concert with their illegally drilled water wells in dry riverbeds/arroyos drilled under the cover of darkness nearer their huge farms, plus the kick-in-your-nuts over-watering of their avocados/wine-producing-grapes/vegetables/fruits to be exported to China taking all this precious water (a net liquid 15% of the 72% bled off to "feed" the entire agricultural industry) pumped straight into the mouths of fat new-rich Chinese middle-class instead of the mouths of poor little thirsty Chilean babes in the Santiago barrios you were sworn-in to protect in this Boric government?

You need to get your facts right... the mining industry is not your bogeyman. The out-of-control-ultra-rich mega-farmers in Chile stealing all this precious water you are only recently so upset over are the bogeyman you want to crush (or at least squeeze their nuts until they pay you off properly like you are now trying to squeeze us junior lithium miners with these articles on our "possible" water over-use).

The Doctor